12/12/20

Episode 30: things we learned/things we got wrong:

News

volcanic eruption in NZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari_/_White_Island_eruption

https://www.outsideonline.com/2411711/whakaari-white-island-new-zealand-volcano-eruption-2019 

MLB and NFL dropped marijuana drug abuse list

Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx and expungement of low level cannabis convictions https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2020/10/20/21524097/kim-foxx-cannabis-marijuana-conviction-expunge-covid-19-cook-county-court-records

lawyers attacked hospital in Pakistan 

Weiss Manfredi will lead redesign of La Brea Tar Pits http://www.weissmanfredi.com/project/la-brea-tar-pits-and-museum-master-plan

meteor showers https://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/

Russia banned from participating in major international sporting events

rocks from Greenland / Earth’s magnetic field https://news.mit.edu/2020/origins-earth-magnetic-field-mystery-0408

https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-magnetic-field-could-be-flipping-a-lot-faster-than-we-though

Topics

cognitive bias

https://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/the-cognitive-bias-codex-a-visual-of-180-cognitive-biases/

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Eberhardt, Jennifer L.

Empathy

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000883

people on the autism spectrum. 

https://autism-advantage.com/group-biases-and-autism.html

https://reality.ai/bias-isnt-always-bad/

Ephemerality

Black Market 1961 (Robert Rauschenberg)